On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 16:36, Don Gould - BVC wrote: > Hummm... you can't lease space on 802.11abg frequencies... it's public spec > space. Quite right. That is why the frequency shifter is needed to move it off the public frequencies.
> Hummm.... shouldn't be. Wireless sites in AU get sub 10ms ping times. > Gaming is one of the main reasons they do it over there. Neh, maybe I am wrong. It frequently happens :) Maybe they would flood the network and collisions cause everything to stop. I recall something being bad... > > External Internet charges will also remain at their current levels: > > �1.5/MB for national traffic, �8/MB international. > > Ouch that hurts! Is that really want the uni is paying for data?!?!? More or less. I have seen the books and it is operating at break-even. > Why is the uni paying for volume anyway? The size of the place they > should be on a fix pipe. With fixed volume you get people (not looking at COSC or ENG postgrads in particular) downloading stupidly large files (Fellowship_of_the_Rim.avi @ 732MB, The_Two_Titties.avi @ 750MB, Return_of_the_Kink.avi @ 726MB) and taking up most of the pipe. Volume charging allows the University to fairly spread the cost over all the users. (I am the student rep on the University IT Committee, and I am willing to go hand-to-hand to defend volume charging.) > > Oh, and you would have to be a Canterbury Tertiary Alliance student > > or staff-member to use the system :) > > That bit is just 'wrong' in my view. What happened to open networking? The University has *never* run an open network. It is not an ISP and has *no* intention of becoming an ISP. The wireless network is being investigated to give students access to course material, not access to the Internet. -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
